Welcome to New York State
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Welcome to New York State
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from Chris Jones
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Links to O.C.M.E.A All County Audition Forms
Updated: 10/29/08 Welcome to the 2008-2009 school year. As our organization continues to develop we will be utilizing a new procedure for the all-county registrations this year. ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE DONE THROUGH solochair.com, which is an online registration site that has been successfully used by many organizations across the state. You will now type your own information directly into a secure website. www.SoloChair.com If teachers would like any help with this procedure, contact Nicki Regan. nregan@mw.k12.ny.us Please read the cover letter for more information
Senior High School
OCMEA_Medical_and_Commitment_Form
Senior_High_All_County_Commitment_info_2008_2009
Junior High School
Junior_high_All_County_Commitment_info_2008_2009
OCMEA_Medical_and_Commitment_Form
Jazz
Jazz_All_County_Commitment_info_2008_2009
OCMEA_Medical_and_Commitment_Form
Elementary
Elementary_All_County_Commitment_info_2008_2009
OCMEA_Medical_and_Commitment_Form
From Nicki Regan Welcome to the 2008-2009 school year. As our organization continues to develop we will be utilizing a new procedure for the all-county registrations this year. ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE DONE THROUGH solochair.com, which is an online registration site that has been successfully used by many organizations across the state. You will now type your own information directly into a secure website
When you are ready to register your students, go to www.solochair.com. If you do not already have an account,you will need to create one. It is important that you correctly list your county as Orange. If you have registered for solochair.com for a NYSSMA solo and ensemble festival you may use your current log-in if you noted Orange County as your local county at that time. After you have logged in you will see a screen with all of the festivals that you can register for. Click “register” and you are on your way! I suggest you register at solochair.com at your earliest convenience. In addition to registering on solochair.com, you will still need to send me the commitment contracts/medical forms before the deadline as I will only clear your entries for scheduling once I have a copy of the commitment contract and your OCMEA dues have been paid. You may print a copy of your registration from solochair.com and I will notify you when you are cleared to check your times.
Please note your specific deadlines at the end of this letter. Solochair will not allow you to enter after the deadline so you must enter your information early. You will find all information necessary for registering your specific festival at orangecmeany.org Please read carefully and adhere tothe audition guidelines found below.
Please adhere to the stated quotas for instrument sign-ups. Violin Auditions have been consolidated to one solo eliminating Violin II auditions. Seating will take place at the first pre-rehearsal. If you enter more students than you are allowed OCMEA will not clear those students for scheduling. If you have any questions please upcoming deadlines as we are all busy. If you have a new teacher in your district please help them through this process. Sincerely, Nicole Regan OCMEA All County Festival Audition Scheduler
OCMEA All-County Audition Guidelines Participation Policy for OCMEA All-County Festivals OCMEA has an established contract with its respective member districts, and therefore, each district’s music teachers, regarding school participation. The following guidelines delineate the responsibilities of the music educator who wishes to engage in festival participation: 1. A student’s school must have paid the district participation fee for the current year. 2. A student applicant must be a member in good standing of his/her corresponding school performing ensemble at the time of the audition and at the time of the applicant’s membership in the All-County ensemble. · A choral applicant must be a member of his/her school chorus where such chorus exists.· A string applicant must be a member of his/her school orchestra where such orchestra exists.· A wind or percussion applicant must be a member of his/her school band or orchestra where such band or orchestra exists.· An instrumental jazz applicant must be a member of his/her school instrumental jazz ensemble where such instrumentaljazz ensemble exists. 3. Each Solo application may only be submitted by the student’s school music director. This will register the student for the solo festival and qualify him/her for possible selection to an All-County ensemble. Submitting a student for audition and possible selection to an All County ensemble is exclusive to member schools, and not available to private teacher-members. Students of private music teachers or home educated students must submit solo applications through the student's appropriate public, private, or parochial school which has paid the annual School Participation Fee. The only exception to this rule is for private string students whose member school district does not have a string program. Their private studio teacher may submit their application if that teacher has a string studio membership with OCMEA in good standing.4. Each teacher submitting student names for All-County Festivals must do so at Solochair.com by the deadline and send, via US Mail, one hard copy of each commitment contract to the Audition Chairperson. No late registrations or substitutions permitted. 5. DEADLINES are FINAL. OCMEA publishes all deadlines and sends an email deadline reminder to their teachers, and recommends that each teacher submit their student names early to avoid any difficulty accessing the internet.
All forms and a complete listing of individual solo titles can be found on the OCMEA website at www.orangecmeany.org. This listing will hopefully prevent any teacher from preparing a student on the incorrect solo. Due to copyright issues, OCMEA will no longer provide copies of music. Questions regarding the rotation music should be directed to Steve Austin at saustin@ecsdm.org.
As our county continues to grow, we encourage you to sign-up only the most capable and prepared students for these auditions who are ready to follow through with the audition. Our judges are simply too busy to hear students that are unprepared or do not follow through. This year’s required audition material is as follows:
Audition Lists for 2008/2009 (lists can be found at www.orangecmeany.org) SENIOR HIGH BAND - List DSTRING - Year IV, Violin Solo is ms 1-19 of “Suite Italian” excerpt of Year IVVOCAL - Eric Whitacre’s “Sleep” beginning on beat 4 of measure 43 on the word “what” through measure 62 melismas’ on the word “sleep. ”All students read Soprano I, Alto I, Tenor I or Bass I throughout, quarter note equals 60 with expressive motion throughout. See website for details
JUNIOR HIGH BAND - List B,STRING - List B, Violin Solo is “Air Varie, de Beriot” from Etling Solo Time for Strings Book 4, Beginning to Ms. 21 VOCAL - A: "Gloria" from Heiligmesse by Haydn arranged by Patrick Liebergen, See website for specific tempos and markings
ELEMENTARY BAND - List B STRING - See website for Violin solo Jazz: TBA
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